Keywords: Kulung, the Orang Kaia (AWM 042512).JPG en 'Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches Reward Mission At the latter end of 1946 a military mission in charge of Major H W S Jackson representing the Australian Government and Major R K Dyce representing the British Government was sent to British North Borneo to repay and reward the natives who aided and succoured the Australian prisoners of war during the infamous Sandakan-Ranau death marches In addition to other military personnel Mr C Simpson went as writer for the ABC and BBC and Mr W MacFarlane as recording technician The Mission retraced stretches of the actual Death March track and in all travelled 185 miles on foot ' Kulung the Orang Kaia Headman of a group of villages at Paginatan He lived in the area during the Japanese occupation and waged a one man guerilla war on their forces He materially assisted in the rescue of Gunner Owen Campbell one of the six survivors out of a total of 2400 Australian and British prisoners of war engaged in the Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches 042512 author 1946-12-13 PD-Australia Uncategorized 2015 February 21 |